Fwd: [tor-talk] (UK) Parliamentary advice on Tor
Cypherpunks can analyze whether it's fishy for world leaders and agencies known spouting FHOTI, going dark, and bitcoin hate... to start stylishly trending 180 on such things. Always beware the sly smile of the politician. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Tasker <ben@bentasker.co.uk> Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:56 AM Subject: [tor-talk] (UK) Parliamentary advice on Tor To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Interesting reading - the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has published it's report on Tor and the (in)feasibility of blocking anonymous access for users within the UK. The document's a PDF, and the layout is questionable, but it's worth a read if you have 5 minutes. http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-488/the-darknet-and-online-... http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-488.pdf There are some interesting insights in there, from the perspective of what LEA's see. The overall summary though is - blocking anonymous access wholesale is not an acceptable policy option in the UK, and would impact on non-criminal Tor users. There _might_ be more appetite for legislating against Hidden Services, but enforcing it would be technologically infeasible. -- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Dnia środa, 11 marca 2015 03:22:12 grarpamp pisze:
Cypherpunks can analyze whether it's fishy for world leaders and agencies known spouting FHOTI, going dark, and bitcoin hate... to start stylishly trending 180 on such things. Always beware the sly smile of the politician.
Indeed. But my understanding is, the report has been prepared by techies rather than politicians? I mean, I know how such a report could come into being in Poland, and politicians would most certainly *not* be involved, or just skin-deep if at all. POliticians will now act upon it, though. This is where the really sly stuff will happen, I guess. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:12 AM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Indeed.
Like Obama and others suddenly saying he "believes in strong encryption", while that may or may not be true, they also hold policy pens and sway over others to back up such statements with action on the public record. That is lacking.
But my understanding is, the report has been prepared by techies rather than politicians?
On second read, yes, under what looks like a UK inquiry model equivalent to the US Congressional Research Service.
Dnia środa, 11 marca 2015 12:43:15 grarpamp pisze:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:12 AM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Indeed.
Like Obama and others suddenly saying he "believes in strong encryption",
Did Obama say "I believe everybody should have access to strong encryption to safeguard their personal security and privacy"? No. He said he "believes in strong encryption". And it would be hard not to believe in it. Wouldn't it be like "not believing" in math, or in tomatoes? "Who should have access to strong encryption" -- now *that's* a whole different story...
while that may or may not be true, they also hold policy pens and sway over others to back up such statements with action on the public record. That is lacking.
The lack of action plays well with how lacking the statement itself is.
But my understanding is, the report has been prepared by techies rather than politicians?
On second read, yes, under what looks like a UK inquiry model equivalent to the US Congressional Research Service.
Exactly. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:10 PM, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Did Obama say [... crypto...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaylQmnXztU There are a lot of thoughts and messages there. As in politics and personas, only more clear by looking additionally to further repeated and/or penned ones, offset by those which are not so done.
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